Your Church Friends Podcast

The First person to take Amos’ socio-ethical message seriously was the Dominican friar Girolamo Savonarola. During Lent in Florence, Italy, in 1496, Savonarola preached a series of hard-hitting sermons on Amos and Zechariah against what he felt were the political and religious sins of that city-state. These sermons led to his imprisonment and subsequent execution in 1498. More recent Martin Luther...

The nations around them were about to be judged for their wicked actions and the children of Israel were ready to celebrate this “Day of the LORD” that was about to come on them, but the prophet Amos would let them know that the same judgement that was coming on the surrounding nations was about to hit both Israel and Judah. Israel and Judah were God’s chosen people and with being God’s chosen peo...

Who was Amos and when was Amos written? What do we know about King Jeroboam II & King Uzziah? Why was Israel worshiping at Bethel? What social issues was Amos addressing and from Amos’ perspective, what is the Day of the Lord? Listen as Your Church Friends dive deep into the Forgotten Book of Amos and unpack all these questions.   Breakdown of the Forgotten Book of Amos: Part 1: Indictments agains...

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These aren’t stories that he made up or fables to tell others, no, this was Peter’s life that he lived and experienced. As he writes what could have been his last words to the church, he wants to leave them with one final message “This is how you walk with God”. See false teachers started to creep into the church and were pulling people away with their lies about who Jesus was and if He would retu...

How did Peter go from denying Jesus to leading the church? What is the divine nature and how does the Eastern Orthodox term theosis relate to the divine nature? How does Peter address the Day of the Lord and what is Tartarus? Listen as Your Church Friends dive deep into the Forgotten Book of 2 Peter and unpack all these questions.   Visit our Website:  https://yourchurchfriends.rocks/  

When was 2 Peter written and who wrote the letter? Who was Peter in the gospels? What happened on the holy mountain and how does it relate to the Tent of Meetings and the temple in the Old Testament? Listen as Your Church Friends dive deep into the Forgotten Book of 2 Peter and unpack all these questions.   Breakdown of the Forgotten Book of 2 Peter: Greeting (1:1-2) Call to develop Christian char...

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The Conviction Series: Listen as Your Church Friends with special guest Pastor Ken Goodban discuss what convicts them from James chapter 5. The conversations starts off with the simple question of “How is your prayer life?” Then it moves to confession and how that confessing our sins to each other brings healing to our lives. After that it’s everyone’s favorite topic, patience. We discuss how pati...

The Conviction Series: Listen as Your Church Friends discuss what convicts them from the rest of James chapter 4. The conversations starts off looking at the statement “knowing what we should do and not doing it is a sin”. Then there’s a quick look at the Israelites inability to just follow God’s instructions when it came to the manna and how we can make the same mistake by not doing the simple th...

The Conviction Series: Listen as Your Church Friends discuss what convicts them from James chapter 4:1-6. The conversations starts with a look at jealousy, (coveting) and what it can do to you personally, your relationship with others and more importantly your relationship with God. Then it moves to how God answers and how “no” could be the best answer. Finally, they discuss pride and the idea tha...

The Conviction Series: Listen as Your Church Friends discuss what convicts them from James chapter three. The conversation starts off at the end of the chapter looking at the error of selfish ambition and how James calls it demonic wisdom. Then it goes back to the beginning of the chapter to cover the topic of controlling what we say. How what we say how the power to tear down or build up and how...

The Conviction Series: Listen as Your Church Friends discuss what convicts them from James chapter two. The conversation starts off looking at the error of showing favoritism and why James calls it a sin. There’s a little Myspace talk and how we can show favoritism to our phones or devices over the people around us. Then the discussion moves to how our faith if not accompanied by actions is a dead...

The Conviction Series: Listen as Your Church Friends discuss what convicts them from James chapter one. The conversation starts off with some unstable faith talk with a dash of vanity issues to giving birth to sin. They also talk about what worthless religion looks like in the life of a Christian and what God actually requires of us.   Visit our Website:  https://yourchurchfriends.rocks/    

He picks up the pen knowing what he’s about to write will not be an easy request, but it needs be done because now things are changed, they are no longer slave and master, but brothers in Christ. Paul will make it very clear, that if the world is going to notice this change, then Philemon must put aside his rights that he has under Roman law and not only welcome back Onesimus but forgive him compl...

When and where did Paul write the letter to Philemon? How does the Bible tackle the issue of slavery? Who is Onesimus and Philemon? What is reconciliation and how does the letter to Philemon show us the Gospel? Listen as Your Church Friends dive deep into the Forgotten Book of Philemon and unpack all these questions.   Breakdown of the Forgotten Book of Philemon: Greeting (1-3) Thanksgiving (4-7)...

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It was a simple but honest conversation between Habakkuk and God. God why is there so much evil and injustice in the world? Habakkuk, I have an answer, but I don’t think you will like it. Your right God, I don’t like it, why them they are worse than us. I know they are, but don’t worry their judgment is coming I just need you to know that the righteous will live by faith. In that frank conversatio...

Who was Habakkuk and what was the time setting for Habakkuk? Who are the Babylonians? What does Habakkuk teach us about God and what is a Woe? Listen as Your Church Friends dive deep into the Forgotten Book of Habakkuk and unpack all these questions.   Breakdown of the Forgotten Book of Habakkuk? Habakkuk’s first complaint (Hab. 1:1-4) God’s first answer (Hab. 1:5-11) Habakkuk’s second complaint (...

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The King, the people, even the cows, put sackcloth on in fear of God’s judgment on them. They thought maybe if we give up our evil ways then God would show compassion on us and not destroy our great city, but Nineveh, the great city, would have a completely different attitude fifty to a hundred years later. Nahum the prophet would let them know that God is powerful, that His judgment on them was c...

Who was Nahum and when was Nahum written? What do we know about Nineveh and how did Nineveh fall? Listen as Your Church Friends dive deep into the Forgotten Book of Nahum and unpack all these questions.   Breakdown of the Forgotten Book of Nahum: God’s wrath against Nineveh (Nahum 1:1-15) Depiction of Nineveh’s fall (Nahum 2:1-13) A mocking song (a dirge) for Nineveh (Nahum 3:1-19)    Visit our We...

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They slipped into the church secretly, these “certain men” who Jude would call dreamers and ungodly and began spreading false teaching in the church. No, he wouldn’t call them out by name, but he would call them out by their actions using 5 Old Testament examples and 2 other ancient writing. See who they were wasn’t as important as what they were doing. So, Jude would remind the church to build th...

What was the way of Cain? What was the error of Balaam and what was Korah’s rebellion? Who was Enoch and how did Jude tie all these stories into false teachers? Listen as Your Church Friends dive deep into the Forgotten Book of Jude and unpack all these questions.   Visit our Website: https://yourchurchfriends.rocks/